Professional Eliminators

Professional Eliminators - The Fifteenth Day of October

Oct. 15: - "Character: CONTEST ROUND: Antagonist Background Story" ▼
Write a story about your antagonist that takes place outside of your novel. The object of the contest is to make your judges understand and empathize with the antagonist's motivations.

If your antagonist is a situation rather than a person, write a background story about that. The Tom Hanks movie ""Cast Away"" famously features only one character (unless you count Wilson), and his antagonist is loneliness. Could you personify loneliness? Why does loneliness exist? What motivates it? How would a lack of loneliness affect survival of the human race? How did it drive main character Nolan to survive for years alone on a deserted island? Loneliness has a job to do. Make us believe it's a valid one.

*Contest Round entries may be any rating. Submit your ITEM or ENTRY number by 1200 noon WDC time on Sunday to compete. WDC time is New York City time and can be found at the top of the IM Console. If you miss this deadline or choose not to compete, you must still log the assignment complete (without linking your work) for the grand prize, per the standard Prep guidelines.

Like the Antagonist Profile in the last assignment, this one was a hard one to do. Not that assignment, but what that assignment entailed aka the Antagonist Short Story Contest. That contest might be a little hard for me to enter because we didn’t know who they were until the end of that novel. It didn’t mean that I couldn’t do it. All it means that it’s not going to be able to do.